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Ireland’s wildly successful movement to repeal the Eighth Amendment has given us a new way to frame reproductive rights.
“There must be a way to make abortion rights be about love,” the journalist Anthea McTeirnan said to me when we met in Dublin in 2015, just before Ireland’s referendum on (...)
Leo Varadkar vows legal terminations by end of year after huge vote for change. Ireland to start abortion law reform after historic vote.
History is made as Ireland votes to repeal anti-abortion laws – video report Ireland has voted by a landslide to legalise abortion in a stunning outcome that (...)
Luke Butterly reports on the work of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities for Reproductive Justice (MERJ) in organising around the upcoming Irish abortion referendum.
"A lot of people have heard internationally about the 8th Amendment, but don’t know the issues of our communities,” says Emily Waszak, (...)
Socialist Democracy urges all socialists and democrats who have a vote to cast that vote for repeal of the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution - an amendment that has embodied the merciless ideology of the Catholic Church, empowered by the grip of the Irish state, to deny the democratic (...)
Seven days from now, on May 25th, Ireland will be voting on whether to repeal the part of their constitution that denies women control over their bodies, writes Susan Moore. This means that 3,265 pregnant people travel from Ireland to Britain every year for safe abortions.
Unlike the Equal (...)
On October 3, 2016, cities across Poland were seized by massive demonstrations against new proposals for a total abortion ban in the country. These proposals, first drafted by the Ordo Iuris Institute, a reactionary Catholic foundation, were designed to deny all access to abortion, with no (...)
On 25 May, the long-awaited and campaigned-for referendum on changing Ireland’s very restrictive abortion law – encapsulated in the 8th amendment to the constution – will finally be held. The very broad-based Trade Union Campaign to Repeal the 8th launched a tabloid campaign newspaper on 1 May.. (...)
A pro-choice rally demands repeal of the Eighth Amendment that bans abortions.
Campaigning for a woman right’s to choose in Ireland has stepped up since the announcement of the date and wording of a referendum on changing the constitution to allow abortion.
The referendum, to be held on May (...)
The new proposal would criminalise abortion in cases where the foetus carries a congenital weaknesss. Mass protests in 2016 prevented a total ban on abortion. The government is now trying a more gradual approach. Poland’s abortion law is already one of the most restrictive in Europe
Thousands (...)
Every year, thousands of women come from Ireland to England for abortions – illegal at home, and punishable in Northern Ireland by life imprisonment. These are their stories
By 10.30am, 10 minutes before her first appointment, Catriona is already grey-faced with exhaustion and so tired that (...)
In October 1983 an abortion ban entered the Irish Constitution - the infamous 8th Amendment was born. The main conservative parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, promoted the ban, prompted by the Catholic Church hierarchy and members of the medical profession, most of them powerful male (...)
European Appeal: Abortion, women decide !
For the right to abortion throughout Europe
To sign : avortement-libre-en-europe rezisti.org
Mobilisations throughout Europe around September 28, 2017
Your delegations are expected in Brussels on 28 September 2017
In solidarity with all European (...)
The death of prominent French politician of the conservative right, Simone Veil, who nevertheless as Health Minister was responsible for introducing the legislation which legalized abortion in France in 1975, was an occasion to look back on the struggle for abortion rights in France and the (...)
The neglect of women’s rights in Northern Ireland is a scar on the United Kingdom’s conscience.
In April, a young woman from Belfast was prosecuted under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 because, at the age of 19, she was unable to raise the funds she needed to travel to England for a (...)
This International Women’s Day, women in Ireland are striking for abortion rights against a backdrop of horror stories caused by the country’s prohibition.
This International Women’s Day will see women’s strikes in numerous locations across the world, most prominently in Argentina and the United (...)
In Poland the law on abortion is one of the most restrictive in the European Union, sex education does not exist, and contraception is both expensive and hard to obtain because a medical prescription is often needed.
According to a 1993 law, abortion is allowed only in three cases: when (...)
On Sunday 28 August, Isra Zariat, writing for the the Norwegian broadcasting website NRK , revealed that Norwegian doctors are conducting ‘virginity tests’ on behalf of concerned Muslim parents. Doctor Therese Kristina Utgård revealed that her website Klara Klok answers questions about the hymen (...)
Minister says mass protests ‘taught us humility’ and conservative leadership will withdraw support for controversial move.
Senior politicians from Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) have distanced themselves from a controversial proposal to ban abortion, in the wake of a wave of mass (...)
Women wearing black clothes and waving black flags are demonstrating across Poland, boycotting their jobs and classes as part of a nationwide strike in protest against a new law that would in effect ban abortion.
Many men also took part in demonstrations on the streets of Warsaw, Gdańsk and (...)
The turnout for the strike has been huge, with at least sixty percent of women not showing up to work in major cities.
Clad in black from head-to-toe, and waving black flags, thousands of women poured into streets of Warsaw Gdańsk, and across Poland Monday for a second consecutive day to (...)
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